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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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The total production of coals in the Pennsylvania and adjacent regions for the Atlantic seaboard for 1875 (mining and shipment having closed for the season) has been 22,971,690 rons, an increase of 360,[?]51, tons over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—it would be too much to expect that Wallsend would be free from the nuisances from which most other Colonial towns suffer, to wit, the cur dog nuisance, the wandering pig nuisance, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. BAKER'S ENTERTAINMENT.—This [?] man gave his highly pleasing entertainment Saturday evening last at Harris' As[?] Rooms. The attendance was very good…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—We, the miners, formerly employed at Greta and now on the ground, desire, through the Advocate, to-day before the miners of this district a statement of affairs at Greta. Six months ago the pit stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I have just been favoured with a copy of a leading article in your paper to-day on the subject of my remarks on the Collieries Bill, and I observe that, misled no doubt by the very imperfect report in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before A. A. P. Tighe, Esq., P.M., and Mr. Moody, J.P. and Mr. Robson, J.P. Several cases were called on for hearing, but none of the parties appeared. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the New Lambton miners was held on Tuesday evening, March 28th, Mr. Rippon in the chair. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ACCIDENT.—A gun accident occurred near the swamps yesterday, to a young man named Williams, residing at Hexham; he was carrying the gun across the swamp when his foot slipped off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held at the New Lambton Arms, on Tuesday evening last. Mr. J Rippon in the chair.—The minutes of last meeting were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—After reading your article on the offered reduction of the getting price of coal at Greta, that the question was put beyond doubt or gainsaying; but to-day there appears one of the most contemptible and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting of the miners of Wallsend was held at Harris's Assembly Rooms, on Tuesday evening last, to consider a notice from the general secretary (Mr. John Wood) of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—There appears a paragraph in of this date respecting a dispute arising amongst the coa[?] trimmers employed by me and the present contractor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the Druid's Hall on Wednesday evening last. Mr. A Snedden in the chair. The minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anniversary services in connection with the Wesleyan Church, were held on Sunday, April 2nd; three sermons were preached in the morning and evening, by the Rev. George…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE oft-recurring unpleasantnesses that have taken place in Newcastle through the irregularities in the system—or rather want of system—adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—In looking over your second issue of the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, we were glad to see so large spacs occupied in sympathising with and advocating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AWFUL POSITION AND ESCAPE.—Yesterday evening a lad mimed Thomas King, residing in Wallsend, ran behind the passenger train as it was leaving for Newcastle, and held on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ACCIDENT IN THE PIT.—Yesterday morning a man named Parsons, while walking in the Wallsend pit fell down the "sump," a distance of thirty feet, and broke several of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—My attention was drawn to a letter from your correspondent at Greta, of last Tuesday, wherein he said that Mr. Sheddon wanted to advise me not to give the Greta miners any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—A letter in yesterday's Maitland Mercury, signed "A. Sheddon," purports to give an explanation of affairs' at Greta from the commencement, and as it insinuates that we…
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